So...Happy as Lazzaro. That was interesting. I'm a cold hard sucker for European class dramas, and for the first half it looks like Alice Rohrwacher dropped a Holy Fool from a folk story into a colorized Dovzhenko film. It's clear Rohrwacher is trying to make some commentary on European class and society, but she kind of shoots herself in the foot by making Lazzaro's fellow sharecroppers almost as cruel as their landlords in the first half. Maybe it's a statement on the human condition? And but the fairy tale overtones, specifically the wolf motif, detract from that somehow by elevating it to the realm of fantasy. It's a beautiful, well-acted film, and I can't say there was ever a point where I wasn't enjoying it on a scene-by-scene basis. But as a whole it leaves me with nothing but a giant question mark.
Rating: 7/10
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